• SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    18 hours ago

    And other ones are being paid by a big firm to work on FOSS projects because it’s still easier than reproducing something from scratch.

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      16 hours ago

      Students and Junior devs alike also contributing to pad their resume and document experience.

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        8 hours ago

        Sure but pretending the the majority of contributes are not being paid is just fake. FOSS is big companies paying people to develop.